Comment Re:who still falls for this picture.jpg.exe nonsen (Score 2) 71
So what they see is "picture.jpg" If they don't notice the picture icon next to it that would be the same as a
Actually it will show the embedded icon from the
But what has always confused me is the filename actually shows as "picture.jpg", while an actual picture.jpg would show as just "picture", right? Therefore it should still be possible to distinguish them because a real one does not have ".jpg". Though I can imagine people not noticing, I'm wondering if there is (or was) a much worse bug, such as the display truncating at the first period while file-type lookup used the last period?
Anybody know? I don't have windows here to test.